Oh wow, seems crafting is comming full circle. Returning back to vanilla d3 way of crafting. First they got rid of needing specific whites, now axing specialty mats. Will make it much less bothersome to craft and place emphasis on getting the plans first and foremost again.

And Im pleased to see that set items is becomming less rare. Blackthorne seriously needs some competition, always a disappointment to ID an item and have it turn out to be that set.

1.) What's the point in class sets if they aren't rarer than any other leg?

I actually think items changing the gameplay should be pretty common and "power" items not doing anything but giving you dmg (say, witching hour) should be rarer. that way you can choose which gameplay you like most and progress your damage while having it. Completing a set bonus should be on the way to completing your character, not the end of the road.

Crafting
Requirement for unique legendary crafting material (i.e. Essence of the Twin Seas) has been removed for crafted legendary / set items.

These crafting materials can be sold to vendors for 50,000 (yes 50K) gold each
Adjusted reagent requirements (set items require more Death’s Breaths; weapons no longer need Death’s Breath to craft)

This is such a horrible idea. That'd be nothing but a super-cheap fix to the stash-issues caused by all those different materials. Why not just give everyone one extra tab?

Also, farming these mats is one of the very few things you can do aside from rifts. They encourage you to use different item sets and skills (more defensive) because you want to do that on t6. So unless you can farm t6 anyway, this means drastic changes. And isn't it wonderful that all those previously useless purple mobs have a purpose now? That we can hunt them and know them by name?

Making the plans the only requirement at this point is stupid beyond belief because of their inflated drop rate. I wonder, who still misses one of those, they used to drop like gems even before the latest patch-inflation. Even story-wise, it makes sense to require some specific material to craft something specific and not just create everything out of sand.

So, both story-wise and game-mechanic-wise, this would be bs. That would only streamline us even more into rifts. Next step would be the removal of the keystone fragments. Rifts are in a good spot now, they don't need more incentive.

I'm with Solmyr77 on this: purple mobs are in a great place in RoS as opposed to vanilla (killing them is kinda fun, farming them promotes build diversity and experimentation, it's awesome). Crafting mats, imo, could use either some streamlining - group them up in some way or give us a guildwars2-collections style stash tab.

I'd be thrilled to spend less time farming rares, but I'd be REALLY surprised at such a crafting change. Course Diablo knows I've got Death's Breath pouring out of my every orifice and would seriously love to spend more of those in exchange for not farming up some goofy random material from some random rare spawn... Would love the change, but won't believe that until I see it.

I'd hope Blizzard's plans for putting Monks in a better place doesn't involve the Monk struggling to get their end game sets and then suddenly doing absurd amounts of damage simply due to having their sets.

Perhaps the change I'd hope is most true is the boost in class sets. I am so sick and tired of seeing Blackthorne's. Green beams should be a lot more exciting than they are currently. Right now a green beam is only semi exciting, and once I open my inventory to identify it, I can already see that it's Blackthorn's before I even confirm it...

Very exciting information, especially for crafting and the monk set buffs. 3000% damage every dash is kind of nutty.

Wonder if they [Crafting Mats] still drop though? I mean, Razorclaw farm T6 for ridiculous gph?

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I'd hope Blizzard's plans for putting Monks in a better place doesn't involve the Monk struggling to get their end game sets and then suddenly doing absurd amounts of damage simply due to having their sets.

To be fair, that's exactly how Barbs and DH's operate. I guess we have to hold out hope for 2.1 and hopefully get a real "class pass". Dex really needs to be looked at in general, if only for EHP reasons.

Previously: Spending 75 Spirit causes a decoy to spawn that taunts nearby enemies and then explodes for 100%weapon damage as Holy.

Now: Spending 75 Spirit causes a decoy to spawn that taunts nearby enemies and then explodes for 1600% weapon damage as Holy.

Very unlikely. One of the problems with the set bonus now is that spending 75 spirit on 1 skill is really hard. (Sweeping Wind and Wave of Light.. Thats it?) Also the second you have resource cost reduction the set bonus doesn't even proc anymore. I'm pretty sure Blizzard is aware of these 2 issues and will look for other ways to fix this set rather than merely upping the dmg. + Don't forget the equally lack luster 1st set bonus of +20% on staffs. Highly doubt they will leave that as it is.

Very exciting information, especially for crafting and the monk set buffs. 3000% damage every dash is kind of nutty.

Wonder if they [Crafting Mats] still drop though? I mean, Razorclaw farm T6 for ridiculous gph?

Quote fromthatguy181 I'd hope Blizzard's plans for putting Monks in a better place doesn't involve the Monk struggling to get their end game sets and then suddenly doing absurd amounts of damage simply due to having their sets.

To be fair, that's exactly how Barbs and DH's operate. I guess we have to hold out hope for 2.1 and hopefully get a real "class pass". Dex really needs to be looked at in general, if only for EHP reasons.

Definitely skeptical on the Monk getting a real class pass, though I also hope that it happens. I mean awhile back they said they didn't like how one with everything was mandatory and they were looking at changes without pissing current monks off. They just gave up, and made RoS items unable to spawn with all resist+one resist. When wave of light was really good, they said Monks were "in a good place" then nerfed it later. Fists of Thunder Thunderclap and Mantra of Conviction were really good back then too, both got nerfed for RoS. They did buff some other things to try and make up for it, but they did a really half assed job.

Definitely skeptical on the Monk getting a real class pass, though I also hope that it happens. I mean awhile back they said they didn't like how one with everything was mandatory and they were looking at changes without pissing current monks off. They just gave up, and made RoS items unable to spawn with all resist+one resist. When wave of light was really good, they said Monks were "in a good place" then nerfed it later. Fists of Thunder Thunderclap and Mantra of Conviction were really good back then too, both got nerfed for RoS. They did buff some other things to try and make up for it, but they did a really half assed job.

Like I said, it really feels more like a "Dex sucks as a defensive stat" thing. Damage dealt feels reasonable, as fire or lite, but you're just so squishy. Us DH's have the advantage of range, thus it's a little more manageable, but it's definitely a glaring issue. I have no idea how they could address it, but they need to stop the random 1 shot deaths in t5-6 without Unity cheese.